Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
AND DORMITORY.
Specifications Of Architects
Weston l. Manning.

| The central portion of main building
will be 5Qx54 feet, with two wings, 4x65
each. These wings will project beyond
the wall line of the central feature about
two feet, in order to break up any rig
idity of outline and to get the proper
architectural effect. Directly in rear OF
center portion of building the chapel ex-
tension is located, size 44x5O. In center
of main front rises tower one hundred
feet high from grade to final.
The building will have three entrances.
one in each wing, connecting with cor
ridor running longitudinslly, and one
main or principal entrance in the tower
Stone steps to all with fancy wrought
iron guard rails and ornamental grille.
The basement will use six feet above
grade and faced with ASHER, with fooled
margins and all laid in regular course.
The walls of the superstructure are to
be built from the best, selected stock
bricks, trimmed about all the openings
with sandstone wrought in shape and
tOoled (rustic.) Wrought iron balconies
will be placed at the second story cOrri-
doris, and in the rear will be placed two
wrought iron fire escapes.
Entrance to the building by the main
hall in front is under high arched open
ing and through large tiled, airy vesti-
bule into the staircase hall, where are To-
Gated two broad staircases leading to the
stories above; adjoining the stairs are
two large wardrobe rooms, furnished
with wash bowls for the accommodation
of the students.
On the left of the main entrance is the
parlor 18x2O feet, and on the right the
head masters room. same size.
In each wing are two large class rooms,
2Ox23 feet; in the end of the hall running
lengthwise the building, are located the
stairs leading to the basement, three
large class-rooms, museum lecture room,
chemical labratory 20x41, boiler room,
janitor's room, rand lavatory. The lab
ratory is finely planned to be flooded
with light, facilitating the delicate opera
tons of the students.
Arrangements for heating and venti-
lating are perfect, there being two ex-
haust shafts, making ample provision for
carrying off the gases from the labratory
and for ventilating the other rooms. 1t
is proposed by the architects to heat the
building either by steam in direct radi-
alton or by hot water; the advantages of
each system will be thoroughly investi-
gated by them, as it is their intention to
make this the model building in Kansas
as regarks heating, ventilation and light.
The second story will contain four
class rooms, 2Ox23 feet, professors and
lady teachers rooms, library 1926, ward |
robes and lavatory. The center portion |
of building will be carried high enough |
to admit music and drawing rooms, and |
on either side in the wings will be located |
the boys and girls gymnasium, IS feet
high. The chapel will be 26 feet high,
with arched ceiling, gallery, apse, ETC.,
and will accommodate $50 students. The
will be filed with cut glass.
the rooms will be finished in hard pine
in. its natural state, filled with hard oil
rubbed to dead finish. The designers
have carried out the building in as pure
style as could be attempted
with the materials at hane. The stories,
IN height, are as follows